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Extending the Eastwick/ Estwick and Brooke ancestry of Camilla and Fergie



18 Jan 2007 15:42:06 -0800 soc.genealogy.medieval
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John Brandon...
As I noted about a year ago, Camilla and Fergie are both descendants of
the Estwick or Eastwick family of Barbados. If you enter "Estwicke" in
"Richard Estwicke, of Barbados," you will see that Richard and his
wife, Elizabeth Rous, are ancestors of Fergie. This same couple,
Richard and Elizabeth Estwicke are numbers #284 and 285 in W.A.
Reitwiesner's ancestor table of Camilla:

Reitwiesner's research shows Richard to be son of Christopher Estwick
and Frances Bond, grandson of Richard Estwick and Joan (---), and
great-grandson of Christopher Estwicke (d. 1600) and Anne Brooke (the
lineage stops here). Reitwiesner's source, _Genealogies of Barbados
Families_, p. 231, is actually more specific about the earliest
ancestor, Christopher, calling him "of Milton Bryan, co. Bedford, died
1600"; his wife is there called "Anne Brooke of Great Oakley, co.
Northampton, sister of Mr. Silvester Brooke." (And, indeed, the will
of Christopher Estwick, Jr., of Coventry [d. 1656/7], abstracted in
this source, mentions his "Uncle Mr Silvester Brooke.")

The 1619 Northampton Visitation shows a Thomas and Jane Brooke "of
Okeley," with daughter "Anne, ux. Christopher Estwick of Milton Grange,
co. Bedf."

This particular Anne Brooke is not shown with a brother Silvester.
Note, however, that her brother Arthur is said to have had a son
Silvester and daughter Ann (as well as sons Adrian and Francis, names
later found among the Barbados Estwick family). I suggest the Anne who
married Estwick is actually a generation more recent in the Brooke of
Oakley family (a daughter of Arthur Brooke by his wife Katherine,
daughter of Sir Edward Watson of Rockingham).

It seems that other names in this ancestry include Poulton, Wake,
Billing, Osborne, and Fuller. See
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